Whoosh! Whoosh! A red butterfly and a purple one, both breathtakingly beautiful, danced before Chiri.
Yugao frowned. "Butterflies!? Is that her ocular technique?"
Itachi narrowed his eyes. "I have a bad feeling about this!"
Whoosh! Whoosh!
He hurled two Kunai, but both passed straight through the butterflies!
Chiri warned, "Don't attack the butterflies. It won't do any good. Attack me!"
"Kamuyami!"
Crackle! Yugao's body became a bolt of lightning and shot toward Chiri...
Clang! Clang!
Chiri swiftly drew the twin swords strapped to her left hip and crossed them before her, blocking the lightning bolt Yugao had become...
Pop! The lightning faded, and Yugao reappeared, stunned. "What just happened!?"
Chiri shouted, "Dodge!!"
Uchiha Rebound!
Crackle!! "Aah!!"
A bolt of lightning erupted and pierced Yugao's shoulder. She tumbled back more than ten meters, then got up clutching the bloody wound. Damn it. If she hadn't warned me, I'd be dead!
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Countless points of light converged on the butterflies. Some drastic change was taking place within them... Those points of light were Natural Energy!
Chiri looked at Itachi and cried anxiously, "Boy, stop me, quickly! Otherwise it'll be too late!!"
Itachi's face grew grave. "Yeah... I'll try!"
Boom!
Crimson Susanoo unfurled around Itachi. Its skeletal hand gripped a crimson spear and hurled it at Chiri!
Boom!
Pink Susanoo rose around Chiri. Its pink nine-section whip wrapped around the spear and flung it away.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Having absorbed enough Natural Energy, the two butterflies took human form...
"Sigh." Chiri sighed softly. "Too late."
The light faded. The figures the butterflies had become were unmistakably "Itachi" and "Yugao"!
The Itachi formed from the red butterfly bore the blue glow unique to Silent Sage Art. His right eye had lost its sight, while his left held a Mangekyo Sharingan.
The Yugao formed from